Written by

Sam Stockard
The Daily News Journal

Republican U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais voted today against a GOP budget plan designed to soften the blow of sequester, just hours after testifying in Washington before the Budget Committee on the need to cut deficit spending.

DesJarlais, a Jasper Republican who represents Rutherford County in the 4th Congressional District, told the budget panel that the nation's "unsustainable debt," now at $16 trillion, is the No. 1 concern he hears from "nearly every single business owner in my district, regardless of their industry, size of the business or even political affiliation."